Screenings
EFS Film School · Encounters
Cinema encountered in the dark and in company — a film met with full attention, and thought aloud together in its wake.
A screening at EFS Film School is a matter of attention rather than exhibition. To gather around a film — in the dark, in the same room, in shared time — is to let it work upon perception as it can only work when given our full and undivided presence. The image ceases to be something glanced at and becomes something lived through: a form of perception, duration, memory, and thought.
Screenings gather films connected to EFS Film School, the Experimental Film Society, the work of Rouzbeh Rashidi, and the wider field of personal, poetic, and experimental cinema. Where the occasion allows, they are followed by discussion — not to explain a film until it becomes harmless, but to deepen the encounter and to think together in its presence.
To screen a film is to give it back its time, and to give ourselves back to it.
Particular screenings, when they are held, are announced through the News.
Beyond these gatherings, the school teaches in four forms — each a different distance to the same fire.